Monday, 17 December 2012

Expert: China's submarines close to world level

When commentating
as a guest on People's Daily Online,
naval expert Li Jie said that submarines
independently designed by China
are close to those of the United
States, Russia,
Germany and
Japan in
performance indicators, despite slight gaps from
developed countries in terms of power
plant and noise.

Li Jie explained that China's
process of designing and building submarines
has been actually getting mature and increasingly
improved. By virtue of the intelligence
and wisdom of Chinese people, China
has made significant achievements in submarine
design.

The submarines independently designed
by China
have no big problems but some slight
gaps in noise, material application and
power supply.
Li Jie added China's
submarines are very close to nuclear submarines
developed by the U.S.
and Russia
as well as conventional submarines developed
of Japan
and Germany
in performance indicators, with narrowing gaps
with them.

Specifically, China
has made improvements in mute effect,
invisibility, material application, underwater hitting
power, while we are also developing long-range,
short-range, anti-ship and ballistic missiles.
Additionally, we are also making effort
to improve AIP submarines, and have made
a great progress.